Free Software Foundation, Free Programs, Open Source, etc.

[heatemyfather]

Thought I would start an Ultimate Thread on what free software is available for all to use (apologies if one already exists, I did have a quick search for one).

Here's a few of my favourites

Cross-platform:
http://www.mozilla.org - Mozilla main site
http://www.mozilla.com - Mozilla Firefox web browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ - Mozilla Thunderbird email client
http://www.apple.com/safari/ - fast web browser based on Konquerer and Apple WebKit
http://www.gimp.org - GNU Image Manipulation Program, image / photo editing software
http://www.inkscape.org - InkScape, vector art program
http://www.openoffice.org - OpenOffice, full office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation, graphics
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - Audacity, sound recorder and editor
http://www.clamav.net/ - ClamAv, Anti-virus software
http://www.dosbox.com/ - DosBox, an x86 emulator with DOS
http://hatari.sourceforge.net/ - Hatari, Atari ST emulator (BYO Roms!)
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html - MPlayer, Movie Player program
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - VLC, portable media player and streaming server
http://bellard.org/qemu/ - QEMU processor emulator, can emulate Windows and others quite effectively
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/welcomeback/ - Skype, make free video or audio calls over the internet around the world
http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/ - SIDPlay play those old C64 tunes!
http://www.viceteam.org/ - VICE, 8-bit computer emulator (C64, Vic20, PET, etc)
http://xoops.widelands.org/ - Widelands, a realtime strategy game similar to Settlers I & II
http://www.sane-project.org/ - SANE, drivers for just about every scanner ever made

Mac:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html - CarbonCopyCloner, data backup tool
http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/products/pleng/pleng.html - PDFLab, Create and edit PDF files
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ - TextWrangler, a good text editor
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html - The Unarchiver, works with pretty much any archive file type
http://www.unrarx.com/ - UnRarX, works on Rars that The Unarchiver can't handle
http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/ - Papparazzi! Web page screen capture utility, captures the entire page in an image file
http://www.kju-app.org/ - Q, a nice port of QEMU
http://www.neooffice.org/ - native port of OpenOffice

I know there are various lists out there already, but this is MY list
If anyone asks if there is software to do xyz then I can point them to this list, although it's not exhaustive by any means. Keep in mind that, as with the Mac ports, there may be specific ports and projects for your particular operating system (e.g. Windows) so it's worth looking at the links and hunting around for these, as they are usually optimised and should run better for you.

Hope it's useful to all you peeps in eBid land anyway! The beauty is that it's all completely freeeeeee!

[heatemyfather]

I came across a couple of nice free software list pages today:

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

[nemo14444]

www.download.com

[heatemyfather]

www.download.com

It's all good, though they do seem to have a lot of trial versions of commercial software on download.com and versiontracker

[r1bby]

For Open Sourced software try my shop :-)

http://uk.nine.ebid.net/perl/main.cg...ource-Software

All priced at £1.98 inc P&P a bargain if you can't download, bandwidth restictions, unsure of creating an *.iso files or a total newbie...

[mrsandman]

Thanks excactly what I needed

[harold69]

I need a registry cleaner for XP O.S. All free ones seem to scan, fix a few items, then want money to complete the job. If i can't get a free one, tell me a good one to buy.

[harold69]

http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/ - Papparazzi! Web page screen capture utility, captures the entire page in an image file
Is this Mac software?

[heatemyfather]

try ccleaner which is free and also clears up left over temporary files

I second that. I use it quite frequently to clean up the registry.

Another very useful free program is Dial-a-fix, it can re-register common parts of the OS and also re-install selected key system files and programs from an original Windows install CD; if parts of your system have become corrupted and stop working properly as a result (happens all too often).

People running Windows XP should not be afraid of updating to IE 7, it seems to fix a multitude of problems.

[heatemyfather]

For Open Sourced software try my shop :-)

http://uk.nine.ebid.net/perl/main.cg...ource-Software

All priced at £1.98 inc P&P a bargain if you can't download, bandwidth restictions, unsure of creating an *.iso files or a total newbie...

A nice service. There are a few things that I baulk at downloading, such as a 2GB linux ISO!

Just out of curiosity, would you take requests if someone saw something open source that they wanted but couldn't download themselves?